USA Today - the economy and tech gowth

This is one of those articles that does not indicate a particularly great future for IT but what are you going to do? In this article in the Wall Street Journal it is said that the slowdowns in the economy are likely to slow down the tech growth. Yes, this means that we dont have to continuously change the software that we are working with and the systems that we are working on but it may also limit the number of jobs out there available (in my opinion). Hopefully the economy will kick itself up and get it together causing the tech boom to be revived.